Beacon Award Participant Profile
City of Delano
City of Delano Seal
May 12, 2011
About Delano
- Incorporated: April 13, 1913
- Population: 54,447
- Location: Along Hwy 99 in Kern County about 30 miles north of Bakersfield
- Elevation: 315 feet about sea level
- Area: 13.4 square miles
Climate Action Activities
- Kern County Energy Watch member
- Greenhouse Gas Inventory, in process
- HEAL Cities Campaign Participant
- Established downtown Green District using Energy Efficiency Community Block Grant (EECBG) funds to conduct energy audits and provide enhanced delivery of energy efficiency services to residential and commercial facilities
- Incorporated agricultural preservation as a key focus of its general plan update
- Creating Sustainable Delano Element in the General Plan
- Working to establish Green Business certification program
- Installed a compressed natural gas (CNG) station at the City’s Corporation Yard, which is used by the city’s Delano Area Rapid Transit (DART) buses
- Hosted two California Almond Sustainability Program workshops, March 2011
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Climate Action Resources
- Delano Downtown Green District
- City of Delano General Plan
- City of Delano Community Development Department
- City of Delano Economic Development Department
The Beacon Award program is funded by California utility ratepayers and administered by Southern California Gas Company, San Diego Gas & Electric Company, Pacific Gas and Electric Company and Southern California Edison, under the auspices of the California Public Utilities Commission.